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Justin DeystoneÌý(formerly Desautels-Stein) joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2009. Widely recognized as a leading voice in critical jurisprudence and the history of legal thought, Justin is the Founding Director of the University of Colorado's Center for Critical Thought, a site for interdisciplinary and collaborative research housed with the University's Graduate School. He teaches courses on International Law, Law and Political Economy, Antitrust, Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws, Critical Race Theory, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, and Property. His scholarship concentrates on the history of legal thought, with special emphases on the United States and International Relations. His most recent book is an edited volume with Stanford University Press, Race, Racism, and International Law (with Devon Carbado, Kim Crenshaw, and Chantal Thomas). His other books include The Right to Exclude: A Critical Race Approach to Sovereignty, Borders, and International LawÌý(Oxford University Press, 2023), The Jurisprudence of Style: A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism and Liberal Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the co-edited volume with Christopher Tomlins, Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

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Prior to joining CU, Professor Deystone practiced for three years in the Antitrust and Competition Group at Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC, served in the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, and worked as a consultant to the Afghanistan Constitutional Commission. During his graduate education, he was awarded a fellowship with a South African development organization, and taught a course on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement at Changzhou College in China. Professor Deystone holds graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.